Monthly Archives: February, 2021
5G will unleash the power of enterprise AR (Reader Forum)
Consumer marketing of 5G feels ubiquitous right now. While the advantages of 5G are certain to eventually deliver significant benefits to consumer devices, applications,...
Why subscriber data is key for 4G and 5G interworking (Reader Forum)
You can't keep a good technology down! According to recent industry data, 5G is the fastest growing mobile technology in history – despite a...
Opportunities and challenges of 5G positioning in the enterprise market (Analyst Angle)
While Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) are dominating the scene for outdoor Location-Based Services (LBS), including automotive navigation and smartphone applications, new technologies, commonly...
You’ve opened your RAN, now what? Phase 2 of Open RAN: Automation (Reader Forum)
2020 was the year Open RAN became mainstream. As more operators started to trial and deploy the technology across the globe and as more...
Fastest isn’t necessarily best: SRG puts three 5G networks to an apples-to-apples test
Speed, speed and more speed: So much of the consumer expectations, and industry testing and bragging, are focused on the new heights of speed...
Deutsche Telekom to start trials of 5G SA technology
German telco Deutsche Telekom installed the first 5G Standalone antenna in the town of Garching, near Munich, to carry out trials of this technology,...
Semtech brings LoRa technology to growing IoT satellite network
Semtech exec: 'When you build solutions for massive IoT, you need to scale'
Semtech recently announced that its LoRa devices have been integrated into U.S.-based...
Niam selects Netmore’s turnkey 5G solution for its Nordic property portfolio
Niam, one of the largest private property owners in the Nordic region with over 1.7 million square meters of real estate in its portfolio,...
T-Mobile users saw improved 5G availability, latency on SA network: Study
T-Mobile users in rural areas were impacted the most from transition to SA 5G
In August of 2020, T-Mobile US claimed a world’s first with...
Orange’s 5G network to reach 90% of Spanish population by 2022: report
Orange Spain expects its 5G network to reach 90% of the population by 2022, Spanish news site Xataka Movil reported.
The operator announced the plans...
Test and Measurement: T-Mo revs up Peachtree Corners 5G tech incubator
T-Mobile US is putting together a 5G tech incubator in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, continuing the company's support of a place that was a center...
From 5G to 6G with Industry 4.0 – and the $1tn telco boom that might never come
(Am I really going to write this?) 6G is a trillion dollar opportunity, apparently. So says the headline in a PR missive about a...
DARPA starts a 5G open-source stack project with the Linux Foundation
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has begun a broad collaboration with the Linux Foundation, hoping to spur open-source development of technologies for use...
Nokia secures multi-year 5G radio and core deal with A1 Austria
Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has been selected by A1 Austria to provide 5G coverage across the country in a multi-year contract.
Under the...
Chile completes first 5G spectrum tender in Latin America
Chile completed what it claims to be the first tender to assign 5G spectrum in Latin America, the country’s telecommunications regulator Subtel said in...
Verizon, Cisco expanded SD-WAN offerings highlight flexibility
Verizon and Cisco have added three new SD-WAN managed services offerings
Verizon Business and Cisco have expanded their SD-WAN partnership, which began more than five...
Global smart building software markets to reach $8.5 billion in 2025: study
The overall market for smart building software is expected to grow from $6.4 billion in 2021 to surpass $8.5 billion in 2025, according to...
‘IoT is not about LoRa vs Sigfox anymore; it is about Design Process X vs Design Process Y’
The low-power wide-area (LPWA) end of the IoT sector is characterised by the capabilities and limitations of its main connectivity technologies. But this is...
C Band auction concludes as assignment phase ends
The assignment phase of the C Band auction has ended, officially bringing to a close the highest-grossing spectrum auction in FCC history.
The auction kicked...
TIM shows it’s possible to close digital divide; it just takes fiber, copper, FWA and satellite
Closing the digital divide and ensuring people everywhere have reliable access to quality broadband services has been a long-standing talking point for politicians, regulators...
#TBT: GSM on the Net; FCC looks into ‘dead zones’; Nextel buys 900 MHz licenses … this week in 1999
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire...
UK’s Manufacturing Technology Centre gets private 5G for Industry 4.0 tests
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) in Coventry in the UK, established by the UK government as an independent research and technology organisation for academia...
Druid signs with Pierson, Winncom for CBRS-based private LTE deployments
Private cellular network vendor Druid Software has announced new distribution deals for its private LTE core networking solution in the US with Nebraska-based network...
Will 5G Change the World? Jim Patterson, Patterson Advisory Group (Ep. 33)
RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Jim Patterson, Patterson Advisory Group (Ep. 33)
Industry analyst Jim Patterson recaps quarterly earnings from U.S....
DoD looks to Federated Wireless and a private 5G CBRS network to build a smart warehouse
As the Department of Defense continues its exploration of how it will leverage 5G networks, Federated Wireless is heading up a 5G Citizens Broadband...